March 6, 2006, Monday

Kirby Puckett, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, was cleared today of all charges in the sexual assault case in which he was accused of dragging a woman into a restaurant bathroom. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for nearly 12...

April 4, 2003, Friday

Kirby Puckett and his wife completed their divorce, ending their 16-year marriage. The 41-year-old Puckett, elected to the Hall of Fame in 2001, and Tonya Puckett, 37, reached an agreement under which he will pay $4,000 a month in child support...

January 1, 2003, Wednesday

To the Sports Editor: Now that Kirby Puckett has been charged with a felony count of false imprisonment and a gross misdemeanor count of criminal sexual conduct, we must charge ourselves for making this guy into a hero. He was supposedly...

THE white-haired 64-year-old man, looking more like a neighborhood bartender, perhaps, than the onetime wonderful second baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates who could execute his end of a double play the way Nureyev could dance a pas de deux, paused in...